Friday

tee-hee! If you want to feel better about a bad day you've had recently, keep reading!
Trust me. There is very little chance that your bad day could be worse than our friday...

First, I woke up with pink-eye. Everybody else in the house (both my girls, my mom, my husband, and my sister) have had it, and I thought maybe I'd missed it 'cuz I was my hands a zillion times a day since I change most of the diapers. But no. I got it.

Next Jake goes to work, and in the first five minutes rips a three or five inch hole in the back seam of his black pants. yay. Then he goes to cash his paycheck and finds out that since he was sick with the flu two days of the week before, his check was HALF of what it normally is, and he still had to buy new black pants 'cuz he just got to work...

Then he's late to come pick me up so that I can have the car to go to my doctor's appointment, and while we start arguing in the car taking him back to work some idiot in front of us is going 25 miles an hour up the on-ramp to the expressway. So, I get too close before I realize how slow he's going, and he taps on the brake. I avoid hitting him, but then he slows down to like 15... So, after we get up on the expressway I try to go around "mister crawly", but he decides to speed up to prevent me from passing him... And Jake and I are still arguing... I get past "mister crawly" going too fast, and then I take our exit too fast. And it's 25 degrees out, which I didn't know (but should have), which makes it VERY slippery. So, we start sliding... And we slide off the road and right over the cloverleaf and down into the ditch... Good note: Pretty much ends the argument. Bad note: we're stuck in deep snow...

To make a long story short, we tried to get out, got more stuck, started walking, didn't get picked up by the ten or fifteen cars that passed us, but somebody did call the police, who came and got us and took us back to the car and called a tow truck. We got towed out in about 15 minutes and got charged $125... yay.

(by the time the police found us we had already kissed and made up, and were laughing and holding hands. It just didn't matter anymore that I was going to be late for my appointment, plus now Jake was going to be late getting back to work...) :)

I missed my doctor's appointment, but went to urgent care, and got medicine for the pinkeye...

Two things could have made this day worse: if it had been -40 or so (although I think one of the cars would have stopped and helped us), or if we had flipped over (in fact, the policeman was amazed that I kept the car from flipping over when it hit the snow berm by the side of the road. Since the snow doesn't go away all winter, the snow plows just scrape it off the road and over to the side, which leaves this huge snow berm. Where we went over the side it was about 3 feet deep- over my knees- typically it's pretty hard and if you hit it full force with a car, the car flips over...)